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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1899-02-27. Paperback. Used:Good.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1899-02-27. Paperback. Used: Good.

MP3 Audio CD. Wounds In The Rain; War Stories THE PRICE OF THE HARNESS I Twenty-five men were making a road out of a path up the hillside. The light batteries in the rear were impatient to advance, but first must be done all that digging and smoothing which gains no encrusted medals from war. The men worked like gardeners, and a road was growing from the old pack-animal trail. Trees arched from a field of guinea-grass which resembled young wild corn. The day was still and dry. The men working were dressed in the consistent blue of United States regulars. They looked indifferent, almost stolid, despite the heat and the labour. There was little talking. From time to time a Government pack-train, led by a sleek-sided tender bell-mare, came from one way or the other way, and the men stood aside as the strong, hard, black-and-tan animals crowded eagerly after their curious little feminine leader. A volunteer staff-officer appeared, and, sitting on his horse in the middle of the work, asked the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Wounds In The Rain; War Stories THE PRICE OF THE HARNESS I Twenty-five men were making a road out of a path up the hillside. The light batteries in the rear were impatient to advance, but first must be done all that digging and smoothing which gains no encrusted medals from war. The men worked like gardeners, and a road was growing from the old pack-animal trail. Trees arched from a field of guinea-grass which resembled young wild corn. The day was still and dry. The men working were dressed in the consistent blue of United States regulars. They looked indifferent, almost stolid, despite the heat and the labour. There was little talking. From time to time a Government pack-train, led by a sleek-sided tender bell-mare, came from one way or the other way, and the men stood aside as the strong, hard, black-and-tan animals crowded eagerly after their curious little feminine leader. A volunteer staff-officer appeared, and, sitting on his horse in the middle of the work, asked the… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Frederick A Stokes Company, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and edges. Covers are worn. Tearing on spine ends. Foxing inside boards and on endpapers. Inscription with date on front end paper. Interior is clean..

Paperback / softback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Independently published, 2018. Paperback. New. 355 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.80 inches.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Methuen & Co. Collectible - Acceptable. 1900 date on title page, reverse of tp is blank, catalog at rear is dated 1904. Red cloth w/gilt. Corners are worn to boards and bumped. Cloth on covers and backstrip looks like the original cloth laid over newer red cloth. Spine darkened, small water splashes to bottom of front cover. Small bookplate to front pastedown, ink owner name to fep dated 1905. Foxing to first and last few pages. Interior is clean and binding sound. No dust jacket.

Hardback. New.

VG HC no dj foxing inside front cover

New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company,, [1900].. First edition, second state.. publisher's gilt cloth. . Some unobtrusive light spotting to cloth; otherwise a nice copy.. 12mo,.

Methuen and Co, 1900. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 347 pp. With 47 page Publishers Catalogue dated August 1900 to rear. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Deckled tail edge. Spine sunned, toned, front hinge starting, a bit of rubbing to extremities, a few small splotches to boards, sharp and clean otherwise. 'The London edition was printed from American plates and appears to have been issued a few days prior to the Stokes edition' --BAL 4090.

London: Methuen & Co., 1900. Hard Cover. 4 leaves, 344, 47 p.; 19.5 cm. Front & back flyleaves are lists of "Methuen's Colonial Library"; includes a 47-page November 1900 Catalogue of Books. This comprises eleven stories based on Crane's dispatches for Blackwood's Magazine of his coverage of the Spanish War during the Spring of 1898. Compiled while Crane was desperately ill with tuberculosis, it was the last book completed during his lifetime, although its first edition was by Methuen with a book catalog dated August 1900 (Crane died 5 June, 1900); cf BAL 4090; cf Wright III: 1269. This variant is not mentioned in Stallman's Critical Bibliography, 1972; cf. 29 & 30. Bound in plain green cloth (without the ornamentation of the true first) / no dj as issued; good+. Stock#OB837.

New York, F. A. Stokes, [C1900]. Good. 1900. Paperback. HARDCOVER first edition. Top edge gilt. BAL 4091 with title page in orange and black. Green cloth mottled on back, lightly edge worn and soiled, small dig to spine gutter front panel. .

London: Methuen, 1900. First Edition (preceeds the US edition by a couple of days). 8vo, pp. 347, plus August 1900 catalog. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Edges a bit torn on two catalog leaves, but print OK, a little foxing here and there, cover a little worn at corners and at ends of spine, which is darkened, o/w a VG tight copy. BAL 4090. A collection of eleven fictional tales, based upon Crane's experience as a war correspondent in Cuba. Completed while Crane was ill with tuberculosis, it was the last book completed during his lifetime. He died June 5th, 1900.